[Couple at Reunion]

Photograph of an older couple at a reunion in Covington, Kentucky, both holding something. There is a picture mounted on the wall in the background.
Date: October 30, 1999
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
World War II Times, Volume 14, Number 4, October 28, 1999 (open access)

World War II Times, Volume 14, Number 4, October 28, 1999

Newspaper clipping of The World War II Times containing stories about veterans and WASP as well as about WWII. There are also photographs, comics, and advertisements included.
Date: October 28, 1999
Creator: World War II Times
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jim McCrery to Charlyne Creger, October 27, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Jim McCrery to Charlyne Creger, October 27, 1999]

Letter from Jim McCrery to Charlyne Creger responding to her previous request for the 1944 congressional members of Louisiana.
Date: October 27, 1999
Creator: McCrery, Jim
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: A Fascinating Cadre] (open access)

[Clipping: A Fascinating Cadre]

Newspaper clipping describing details of the book "A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman in Military Test Pilot in World War II" by Ann Baumgartner Carl with publication and pricing information. The clipping also provides a brief biography of Ann Baumgartner Carl, and lists additional books about the Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.).
Date: October 25, 1999
Creator: Booher, Alice A.
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charlyne Creger to Judith Farley, October 15, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Charlyne Creger to Judith Farley, October 15, 1999]

Copy of a letter from Charlyne Creger to Judith Farley thanking her and her coworkers for their hospitality at a previous visit, and thanking the Veterans Hospital for all their help.
Date: October 15, 1999
Creator: Creger, Charlyne
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Charlyne Creger to Judith, October 15, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Charlyne Creger to Judith, October 15, 1999]

Copy of a letter from Charlyne Creger to Judith reminding her of how thankful she is for the Women Airforce Service Pilots healthcare benefits as it shows that their organization is remembered for their service.
Date: October 15, 1999
Creator: Creger, Charlyne
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Harry Bradford Urey, Jr., October 14, 1999

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Transcript of an interview with Harry Bradford Urey, Jr., a mechanical engineer and Army Air Forces veteran (454th Bomb Squadron, 323rd Bomb Group, 9th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-26 pilot in the European Theater during World War II.
Date: October 14, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Urey, Harry Bradford, Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, October 13, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, October 13, 1999]

Letter from Michael R. Winn to Rosa C. Creger thanking her for participating in their annual Women's Equality Day Program and inviting her to attend the live telecast for their Veteran's Day Program at the Overton Brooks Medical Center.
Date: October 13, 1999
Creator: Winn, Michael R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Fiske Hanley, October 13, 1999

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Transcript of an interview with Fiske Hanley, an aeronautical engineer and Army Air Forces veteran (398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, 313th Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force), concerning his experiences during World War II, including as a flight engineer aboard B-29s in the Pacific Theater and as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese.
Date: October 13, 1999
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hanley, Fiske, II, 1920-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, October 5, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, October 5, 1999]

Letter from Michael R. Winn to Rosa C. Creger thanking her for accepting to be the main speaker at the medical center's Women's Equality Day Observance and briefly discussing details of the event.
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: Winn, Michael R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, October 5, 1999] (open access)

[Letter from Michael R. Winn to Charlyne Creger, October 5, 1999]

Letter from Michael R. Winn to Rosa C. Creger discussing the details of the Women's Equality Day Observance event at the Overton Brooks Medical Center and thanking Ms. Creger for accepting their invitation as the main speaker.
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: Winn, Michael R.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[WASP Reunion Committee Minutes] (open access)

[WASP Reunion Committee Minutes]

Minutes form a WASP reunion committee meeting discussing a tentative agenda for the reunion weekend.
Date: October 5, 1999
Creator: Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flight 1, Region One Newsletter, Volume 10 Number 5, October, 1999 (open access)

Flight 1, Region One Newsletter, Volume 10 Number 5, October, 1999

Newsletter for Region I members of the former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots, including news, events, stories about the group's history, and other information of interest to the members.
Date: October 1999
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Sponsor Application Form by Frances Sargent for Helen Wyatt Snapp] (open access)

[Sponsor Application Form by Frances Sargent for Helen Wyatt Snapp]

Completed Sponsor Application Form for Helen Wyatt Snapp. The form was completed by Frances Sargent, who sent the $300 check to the International Forest of Friendship on October 8, 1998.
Date: October 1998
Creator: Sargent, Frances
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: Women pay tribute to those who served] (open access)

[Clipping: Women pay tribute to those who served]

Newspaper clipping of part of an article about women who served in WWII being honored for their service. The article includes a photograph of women in large coats standing behind a large, flat monument stone. There are local television listings on the back of the clipping.
Date: October 21, 1997
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Program: Dedication Women in Military Service for America Memorial] (open access)

[Program: Dedication Women in Military Service for America Memorial]

Program of events, speakers, and guests for the Dedication to Women in Military Service ceremony held at Arlington National Cemetery, October 18, 1997.
Date: 1997-10~
Creator: Women in Military Service for America Foundation, Inc.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
WASP News, Volume 36, Number 2, October, 1997 (open access)

WASP News, Volume 36, Number 2, October, 1997

Newsletter of the former World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots including news, events, stories about the group's history, and other information of interest to the members.
Date: October 1997
Creator: Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women of the Armed Services Political Cartoon]

Political cartoon of a memorial of man in uniform riding on top of a woman like a horse. The text on the memorial reads, "Memorial to the Women of the Armed Services".
Date: October 1997
Creator: Benson, Steve
Object Type: Artwork
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Luther G. Strange, October 16, 1996

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Interview with Luther Strange, an Army Air Corps veteran, concerning his experiences at Hickam Field with the Headquarters Squadron during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date: October 16, 1996
Creator: Blanchette, Scott & Strange, Luther G., 1913-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William R. Gill, October 13, 1996

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Transcript of an interview with William R. Gill, agronomist and Army veteran (A Company, 389th Infantry Regiment, 98th Division), concerning his experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II and his experiences and role in the Pacific War Crimes Tribunal in postwar Japan. Appendix includes five leaves from "The hunt for Tokyo Rose,' By Russell Warren Howe and four leaves from "Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific," by Masayo Duus.
Date: October 13, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Gill, William R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Davis Porter Newton, October 12, 1996

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Interview with Davis Porter Newton, Army WWII veteran of the Pacific Theater from Birmingham, Alabama. Newton discusses his family background, working during the Depression and his education, commissioning into the Army, assignment to the 346th Harbor Craft Company and deployment to Finschhafen, New Guinea, acting as defense counsel in a court martial, sea-transport operations around New Guinea and the Philippines, working with POWs, and investigating war crimes.
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Newton, Davis Porter
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jean Balch, October 12, 1996

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Interview with Navy veteran Jean Balch, including Balch's personal experiences about the Pacific theater, being a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II, boot camp, radio, radar, and gunnery school, operations during the Leyte invasion, missions over Luzon, and raids on Japanese installations on Formosa and Saigon, French Indo-China. Additionally, Balch talks about his plane being shot down on a raid to Hong Kong and his capture on January 16, 1945, interrogations and beatings by the Kempei-tai, imprisonment at Ofuna, Honshu, solitary confinement for six months and continued interrogation, beatings by Japanese prison guards, starvation diet, the end of the war and liberation, and his participation in the war crimes trials held by the International Military Tribunal.
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Balch, Jean
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with John Rich, October 12, 1996

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Transcript of an interview with John Rich, journalist and Marine Corps veteran (4th Marine Division), concerning his experiences as a Japanese language interpreter/interrogator in the Pacific Theater during World War II and his observations as a journalist while covering the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Rich discusses his pre-war career in journalism; U.S. Navy Japanese Language School, University of Colorado, 1942-43; assignment to the 4th Marine Division, 1943; Roi-Namur and Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 1944; interrogation of Japanese prisoners-of-war; Saipan and Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1944; Iwo Jima, 1945; coverage of the Tokyo war crimes trials for International News Service, 1946; reminiscences about covering Franklin D. Roosevelt's meeting with the press after the Atlantic Conference with Winston Churchill off Argentia, Newfoundland, August 10-15, 1941.
Date: October 12, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Rich, John, 1917-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, October 11, 1996

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Interview with Lanson B. Ditto, clothier and Navy veteran regarding personal experiences about the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mediterranean Theaters during World War II. Ditto talks about his education, enlistment in the Navy V-7 Program, midshipman training, assignment to the USS Langley, pre-war duty in the Philippines, coming of war and combat around the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, the sinking of the Langley and his transfer to the USS Pecos, the sinking of the Pecos and his rescue by the USS Whipple, various naval battles and assignments, antisubmarine patrols off the Solomons, various escort duties, and his promotion to captain of the O'Toole.
Date: October 11, 1996
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Ditto, Lanson B.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library